Translation
to say
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Examples
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He told the truth.
?
What did you say?
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She told me that she would come.
.
Do not say that to him.
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I can only tell the truth.
is "to say" or "to tell", and what is said is its direct object, so it takes the accusative: , ?. The person told is not the object but the recipient, and goes with : . Its family is built from the root dir- by the usual endings and affixes: is a saying, is "said", and anta怒diri is "to foretell". Keep it apart from , which is talking rather than uttering, and takes for the topic.
Where this fits
Word family
Words built on diri with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- dira牡onoun
something said, an utterance; a turn of phrase, a way of putting things; what people are saying about somebody
diri-a牡-
- eldiriverb
to utter, to speak out, to express
eldiri
- kontra怒dironoun
contradiction
kontra怒diri: a saying against
- la怒direadverb
reportedly, allegedly; by all accounts
la怒diri
- nedireblaadjective
unspeakable, indescribable
nediri-ebl-: not able to be said
- onidironoun
rumour, hearsay
onidiri
- rediriverb
to repeat, to pass on (what one heard)
re-diri: to say again
- verdireadverb
to tell the truth, truth be told
verodiri
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 6: diri, 艥i, tio and 11 more words.